by Eleanor Mannikka
synopsis
Based on a character created in a series of short stories published in a Swedish weekly magazine, the Asa-Nisse films began in 1949, and Asa-Nisse I Kronaus Klader is the ninth in the sequence. A kind of "B"-movie antidote to an overdose of Ingmar Bergman, Asa-Nisse (John Elfstrom) is a fifty-ish villager with an assertive wife and a tendency to chase after miscreants on his own. This does not endear him to the local constabulary. Now he has joined the military and if the police were not fond of his tactics, the military take an even dimmer view. As usual, a few new characters make their way into his life, this time one of them is Sweden's rock 'n' roll idol, Little Gerhard.
